A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 57

Chapter 57

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Translated by Sylph

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“Huff, huff! Ohhh……”

Tie stood beneath a streetlight, drawing in the breath she had been holding.

Her head was spinning, the kindergarten bag barely hanging from one shoulder was swinging back and forth, and rainwater kept flooding into her vision.

“Necromancer King! Where have you disappeared to! You’re trying to kill me and ruin my furnace! Do you take the Primordial Furnace lightly-!”

Behind her, Velugon’s furious shouts rang out over and over again.

Startled, Tie hid herself behind a nearby recycling bin.

Through the narrow gap between the bins, he could see Velugon.

He was standing in the middle of an empty four-way intersection, looking around in every direction like a madman.

Goosebumps prickled over the backs of her hands.

“Where are you, Necromancer King! Come out!”

At this moment, another subtle voice was layered over Velugon’s own.

Tie had seen something like this before.

To be exact, on a children’s TV show.

“‘It’s exactly the same as when the hero is being controlled by a bad guy and their voice changes!'”

Tie stood up.

Then she moved quietly and hid herself in the nearest alley.

But in the process of stepping over a puddle full across the ground, she ended up stepping on a manhole cover.

“There you are!”

At the clattering sound, Velugon, who had been far away, turned his head toward Tie.

“Eeeeek.”

Meeting Velugon’s eyes, Tie jumped in place and began running again.

Velugon chased after her, and behind Velugon, the red haze chased after him in turn.

“Stand there! I’ll kill you!”

“Factory Manager grandpa is chasing meee……!”

As she screamed, Tie thought about how things had ended up like this.

More than the typhoon, more than the rainy night street, more than the radio, this chase was the most frightening thing of all, and it had started exactly twenty minutes earlier.

From the moment Tie discovered Krazar’s core inside Velugon’s clothes.

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“I won’t give my weapon to anybody. Not holy knight bastards, not mercenary bastards, not even if it’s the Emperor……”

20 minutes earlier.

Seeing something faintly glimmering inside Velugon’s collar while he bowed his head, Tie covered her mouth.

“‘Krazar’s core!'”

The thing that had pulled both her and Velugon into subspace was right there.

“‘How did that happen?'”

Her heart was pounding hard, but Tie slapped her own cheek with a smack to pull herself together.

Her thinking moved simply, but logically.

“‘This is the fear-space Krazar made!'”

She did not know how to get out, but at least Krazar’s core was right in front of her.

And Tie, who had conquered no fewer than three magic stones and was now an experienced mercenary, knew one thing.

“‘If I investigate that, maybe I can figure something out.'”

That a monster’s weak point was its core.

The Krazar core before her glimmered faintly again.

“‘If I just break that, it feels like we might get out……?'”

Tie stared hard at Velugon, who was still muttering down at the floor.

Then she quietly raised one hand.

“‘If I carefully, really carefully take it……'”

But she soon had no choice but to lower her hand again.

“I must not give my weapon to anyone, I will drive them all out……. Weapons are sacred. It is humans who are filthy. It is humans who have fallen……”

Because the eyes of Velugon, muttering incomprehensible words, were deeply unsettling.

No matter how she looked at him, he seemed like a time bomb just about to explode.

“‘Feels like he’d bite Tie.'”

The black dog Taehog from her class used to raise had been like that too.

That nasty thing would stand there blankly just like that, and then suddenly run to bite some passerby.

Of course, Tie was very careful, so she had never once been bitten.

Standing in place, Tie sank into thought.

Inside Velugon’s clothes, the core was still glimmering faintly.

“‘What do I do so I can get that?'”

It was while she silently watched only the outline of the magic stone.

“Huh?”

Suddenly, something else came into Tie’s sight.

“‘……A thread?'”

Now that she looked, something faint was trailing out from Velugon’s inner pocket.

It was shaped almost like the glittering chenille stems they used in craft time.

Following that uneven thing with her eyes, Tie let her mouth hang open.

“It’s attached to the haze?”

The core was connected to the red mist across the road that had been eyeing Tie.

Tie’s face turned serious at once.

“……Krazar.”

Now, beyond mere instinct, it seemed her mercenary instincts were telling her.

“So it really was you.”

That the red haze connected to the core, namely Krazar, was controlling Velugon at present.

“Necromancer King……”

At that very moment, a bizarre voice slipped from Velugon’s mouth.

Strangely, another voice overlapped on top of it.

“Necromancer King.”

Velugon jerked his head up.

There was still no focus in his dim eyes.

Clutching her kindergarten bag to herself, Tie said,

“Don’t come!”

But naturally, Velugon only ignored her words.

“Necromancer King, you……”

Taking one step forward with a pale face, he said,

“I will kill you.”

It was such a flat threat that it sent chills down her spine.

At the same time,

[Looks delicious-]

A faint whisper sounded in empty air.

The next moment, the frozen Tie spun around.

Then she began running as hard as she possibly could.

Because at the moment that whisper rang in her ears, Velugon and the red haze began chasing after Tie as if they had been waiting for it.

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Meanwhile, inside a greenhouse filled with warm sunlight.

“Go on. I’m listening.”

Someone sitting on a mahogany bench said that in a calm voice.

Then a respectful reply flowed from the communicator in the speaker’s hand.

[So, because the situation is serious, we’re considering first issuing a summons order to the top three mercenary companies.]

“……I see.”

Bare feet wearing nothing at all brushed against the lilies, roses, and purple irises arranged in splendid harmony.

Soon the feet came to a stop in place.

“Well, if Krazar’s core has reacted, then it is indeed a serious situation. However.”

The owner of the voice slowly rose from the bench.

As he walked toward the marble fountain, the sky-blue cloak he wore swayed softly.

“Will those three captains obey the association’s order so readily?”

As if reflecting his thoughts, his long, slender fingers tapped the edge of the fountain.

At once, an answer came from beyond the communicator.

[I think Silvar’s Scream will send people right away. Their coffers have gotten a bit fatter lately from the commissions we assigned to them. Grim Reaper, in second place, wasn’t exactly a rebellious group to begin with, was it? They’ll obey well enough.]

“What about Trevaga?”

The blue cloak turned in a circle and headed back toward the mahogany bench.

“Will they move too? To save those trapped in Krazar’s subspace, Tesetan Veronio’s ‘those eyes’ will matter. If he does not come, then whatever happens, it will be difficult to resolve the situation.”

[That’s right. Honestly, that unpleasant bastard does seem like he might refuse to go……]

A sigh came from beyond the communicator.

[Anyway. Then shall I issue the summons order?]

The feet that had been slowly circling the corridor finally stopped in place.

Only after a little time had passed did he answer.

“Fine.”

[Publicly?]

After a short breath, the calm answer followed.

“Yes, it has been quiet for a while. It is about time the association stepped forward again.”